"Uncle" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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叔叔 shū shu father's younger brother / uncle / Taiwan pr. [shu2 shu5] / CL:個|个[ge4]
大大 dà dà greatly / enormously / (dialect) dad / uncle
大叔 dà shū eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father)
大爷 dà ye (coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man
伯伯 bó bo father's elder brother / uncle
老伯 lǎo bó uncle (polite form of address for older male)
叔父 shū fù father's younger brother / uncle
老大爷 lǎo dà yé uncle / grandpa / CL:位[wei4]
姑爷 gū ye son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
姑父 gū fu father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle
姨父 yí fu husband of mother's sister / uncle
世伯 shì bó uncle (affectionate name for a friend older than one's father) / old friend
姑夫 gū fu father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle
叔 shū uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2]
姑爹 gū diē husband of father's sister / uncle
季父 jì fù uncle (father's youngest brother)
舅舅 jiù jiu mother's brother / maternal uncle (informal) / CL:個|个[ge4]
家 jiā home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:個|个[ge4]
舅父 jiù fù mother's brother / maternal uncle
叔公 shū gōng great uncle / grandfather's younger brother / husband's father's younger brother
伯 bó father's elder brother / senior / paternal elder uncle / eldest of brothers / respectful form of address / Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
舅 jiù maternal uncle
伯叔祖父 bó shū zǔ fù father's father's brother / great uncle
叔丈人 shū zhàng rén wife's uncle
叔岳 shū yuè wife's uncle
怪叔叔 guài shū shu queer uncle, referring to a young to middle-aged male pedophile (Internet slang)
黑奴吁天录 Hēi nú yù tiān lù Uncle Tom's Cabin, translated and adapted by Lin Shu 林紓|林纾
张成泽 zhāng chéng zé Jang Song-taek (1946-2013), brother-in-law of Kim Jong-il 金正日[Jin1 Zheng4 ri4], uncle and mentor of Kim Jong-un 金正恩[Jin1 Zheng4 en1], in 2013 accused of being a counter-revolutionary and executed
张诚泽 Zhāng Chéng zé Jang Seong-taek or Chang Sŏngt'aek (1946-), brother-in-law of Kim Jong-il 金正日[Jin1 Zheng4 ri4], uncle and regent of Kim Jongeun 金正恩[Jin1 Zheng4 en1]
家叔 jiā shū (polite) my uncle (father's younger brother)
家舅 jiā jiù (polite) my maternal uncle
舅爷 jiù yé father's maternal uncle / granduncle
从父 cóng fù paternal uncle
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